The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-08
StrObridgs's Large photographic
- Works at Cincinnati
Consumed by flames in Less Than
Forty Minutes.
A Fireman Falls Thlrty-ave Feet
From q Ladder.
Joseph Jacobs Burned to Death in a
Tenement House.
Several Firms Damaged in Duluth by
y FIRE and Water.

CINCINNATI, Dec. AT one-thirty
this morning general alarm sounded
and called the entire fire department to
the Strcbridge Lithographing COM
pany's great building, on the northeast
, corner Of Elm and Canal streets. The
flames devoured the entire building,
and In less than forty minutes the
walls fell in. The loss is total and
will probably be not less than $3.50, 600,
but ~ some it Is estimated as high as
halfa million. Strobridge & Co. have
an Insurance Of S150. 200, in forty differ
! ent companies. The fire started
In the second story, but no one
knows how. There is bare suspicion
of incendiarism. The Strobridge com
Spany have an Office in New York and
one in London, England, but their
work Is done here. The building was
Zine structure, five stories in height
and h6nting over a hundred feet on
the north of Canal street. 1t was
filed with costly machinery
including fifteen photographic presses.
It's stock of paper and OF finished and
partly finished work was very large,
estimated to be @1O0, 900. Most of the
winter work for theatrical companies
was finished, but q large portion was
still in the building and a number OF
theatrical companies will be without
material to properly bill their plays.
Among those suffering in this way
are Charles A. Hoyt's three com
panies: The Tin Soldier" Rag
Baby" and ''Hole in the Ground,S
Micheal Strogoff, Kiralfgo Aladdin;
Montgomery Phister's ''Soap Bubble, :"
and Forepaugh's and Barnum's
circuses. The work for the latter,
however, had not advanced
very far. The scene during
the fire was startling. The height
of the building, combustibility of its con-
tents and substantial style Of its struc-
ture served to make the fire fierce but
comparatively slow. 1t burned floor
after floor and the falling of heavy lith-
Ographic stones gave sounds like the
discharges battery. Later the falling
of the walls sent sheets of flame and
showers of sparks high into
the air. During this part of
who was on a ladder thirty-fiye feet
from the ground, missed his footing
and fell to the pavement. He was
taken to the hospital, with injuries
which may prove fatal. The business
is probably the largest of its kind in
the world. One hundred and twenty
five men were employed.
Mr.. Hines Strobridge, president of
the company, says he thought the
building fire-proof and is astonished
that 1t should go as it did. Within the
building as tenants, were James Bar
clay, job printer, and a Halstead stock
ing company. Their toss will be about
go 900 each.
The best estimate that can be made
of the total loss is about $500, 600, on
which the insurance Is $3.50, 900. But
the loss on business during the time of
enforced idleness cannot be accurate
~ estimated.
The building may be regarded as a
total loss. The portions of the walls
left standing are worthless. The fire
is still burning slowly, at 10 a. m, and
the engines are throwing water on it.
THREATENED BY A MOB.
FREDERICK, Md, Nov. 30.-Since
the lynching of John Bigus, colored, last
Tuesday night, for an assault upon
Mrs. Yeakle, the negroes have been
threatening revenge. Several OF them
have been locked up for their talk and
efforts to raise mob to do violence to
Sheriff Luther and others. Several
well-known citizens, who were believed
to have had something to do with the
lynching, received anonymous notes
warning them that their lives we're in
danger, and that the brothers of Bigus
would be revenged. Nightly the ex-
eiteEsent was increased until last night
there were several hundred strange ne
the city, and they were in an ugly mood.
There are four or five hundred ne
groes residents of Frederick, who, with
the negroes from the outside, make
formidable mob. at midnight the an
CRY negroes were marching the streets
carrying heavy sticks, and the more
drunk among them cursing like de-
mons. Some of them were declaring
that they would burn the Jail and free
nrfQnnRrQ fnUn
are powerless, and the mayor has or
dered out the Fredericks Riflemen, q
militia organization. These, about 100
in number, armed with Winchester
rifles, are guarding the jail and the
sheriff's residence. The doOways of
the jail have been barricaded. The
negroes seem to direct their vengeance
against the sheriff, who they declare,
did not properly try to protect Bigus
from the lynching party.
AN INSANE MURDERER.
XENIA, Ohio, Nov. 30.-This even
ing Sam Hardin, q colOred teamster,
murdered his wife and probably fatally
wounded couple of men. Hardin first
attacked James Butler another team
ster and his former partner, cutting his
throat horribly from ear to ear. His
father-in-law, John Fisher, attempted
to control him and was cut half dozen
times, the jugular vein and windpipe
being laid bare. He then cut his wife's
throat, severing the windpipe and jug.
ular vein. He is thought to be crazy
By FIRE AND WATER.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. Fire eSfly
this morning in the Metropolitan block
damaged the building slightly, while
the water damaged the dry goods stock
of l. Freemuth to the extent of nearly
900 and the contents Of the law and
other offices about 81 900. The Duluth
press club rooms were flooded. The
losses are covered by insurance.
DIED AT HER PRAYERS.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Nov. 30.-At l O'Clock
this morning Arnold Medice returned
home from his saloon on Market street
and on entering the bedroom found his
wife dead, kneeling with her head or
the floor. She had probably fallen deaC
while praying. Her two young chill
dren were clinging to her.
BURNED TO DEATH.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA fire in
tenement..house at 345 West Forty-thir,
street early this morning caused
panic among its inmates All es
capped uninjured except Joseph Jacobs
aged FIVE, who was burned to death
The damage to the building vii
amount to $40, 900.
THE RANDALL MURDER.
TURNER'S FALLS, Mass, Nov. So
of David Randall last night deepenl
The entire lack of a known motiy
forms the subject of the deepest De
plexity. The victim was showing I'll
occupant of a room a lot of eggs he ha
bought, when suddenly stunning e,
plosiOn occurred and a section of lam
shade fell. The family at first though
that the lamp had exploded. The vi
tim after the explosion still sat in b
chair. His cane clasped in his hand
resting between his knees, but his hes
was bent forward on his breast, al
when they reached his side he w
dead. The boy says he left the hou
fifteen minutes before the murder {
tensibly to 20 to Montague City
visit some of the boys. He states wi
precision the very second he reach
here, and the hour he left, most /
exact for belief, and this Suspicion
shared by the state detectives, W
have the case in hand. Shortly aft